Less Glamourous Glasgow

On Saturday- This morning we had a yummy breakfast at an Italian Cafe - then we checked out, and caught the train to Glasgow - approx 50 mins away - only because we couldn't get accommodation in Edinburgh for the game - the guy at the train station had a good chuckle at our train plans...Edinburgh to Glasgow on Sat, Glasgow to Edinburgh to Glasgow on Sun, Glasgow to Edinburgh on Mon!

Once we arrived we checked in to our hotel then watched a very gripping Tonga (said Tong-ga over here - hehe) vs South Africa - aw shucks I am so proud of our pacific island neighbours - they made South Africa sweat something chronic!

We then had a look around Glasgow mainstreet - I am in materialistic heaven - there are so many cool clothes and shoe shops over here I have just about abandoned all ideas of ever seeing the rest of Europe just to have an awesome wardrobe! However, since we have don't have much money -we can't really do either(travel or Me have a glamourous wardrobe)- well at least until we earn some of those elusive pounds :o)

We were even more stoked when we saw our first black, sleek Lamborgini - I think they saw us drooling, and revved the engine for us! Must practice nonchalance!

So town was extremely busy - just loads and loads of people - like some sort of festival or something was on! But I think it must always just be like this on a sat! Glasgow definitely isn't as cool as Edinburgh, I think it is the whole castle sitting on a hill thing that really makes Edinburgh special. Glasgow appears to be more of a Metropolis for shopping (not a bad thing in my book) whereas Edinburgh is more touristy?

We saw that the Scots of Glasgow have a sense of humour -see photo below (I think maybe it's just that Glasgow has uni students too!)

We walked into a sports shop - Bev wanted to check out this game that they play over here very similar to hockey but with loose rules and funny but similar looking sticks - however we didn't find any, but were welcomed into the shop by a shop assistant( I like how they do that here - very polite) - he took one look at us in our black adidas tops with silver ferns on them, and said that we could find rugby equipment downstairs - we chuckled at his acknowledgement of our nationality and rubgy enthusiasm!

Anyway, had heaps of trouble with the last internet cafe we were at cos it only ran Windows 98 on all its computers - hello what century are we in! So we had to change and come to a different internet cafe.

Anyway, better go and do some more stuff so that we have something to write about next time :o)

Jam